SLADE is a modern, open-source map editor for Windows, Mac and Linux created and maintained by Simon Judd.

History

• SLADE 1 stopped at version 1.13, released on 2006-05-23.
• SLADE 2 reached beta on 2007-06-07, but was abandoned afterwards.
• SLADE 3 is currently (as of Wednesday, 6 May 2026 [March 9, 2010 for archive]) in development. It is a merging of SLADE and SLumpEd.

Features

SLADE 3

• All SLumpEd features and more
• Lump manipulation in WADs and ZIPs (STORE and DEFLATE only at the moment)
• Ability to open archives-within-archives
• Ability to open many other game archive formats (Duke Nukem 3D GRP files, Blood RFF files, Shadowcaster DAT and LIB files, Quake PAK files, etc.)
• Support for many graphic picture formats, including:
  • All those from the Doom Alphas and Beta
  • All ZDoom-specific formats (IMGZ, FON1, FON2)
  • The planar format used by the Hexen startup screen
  • PNG including the grAb and alPh chunks, and many other standard formats (BMP, JPG, etc.)
  • The formats used by Shadowcaster, Quake, Heretic II, Duke Nukem 3D, and more
• Support for editing TEXTUREx lumps, including the Alpha and Strife variants
• Text editing of any lump
• Hex viewing of any lump
• A console
• Map preview supporting Doom and Hexen map formats, as well as UDMF and the Doom64 EX format.

Map editing is not in yet.

Older versions

SLADE 1.13 or 2.00-beta have the following features:

• Support for Doom, Doom II, Heretic and Hexen games
• Support for Boom and ZDoom source port advanced features
• DECORATE parser
• Colour configurations
• 3D editing mode (including slopes and translucent textures)
• Uses wxWidgets for the user interface
• Easy line and rectangle drawing

See also

• SLumpEd

External links

• SLADE homepage
• SLADE Wiki
• SLADE subversion repository (trunk checkout), hosted by MancuNET
• Compiled SVN builds for Windows at DRD Team